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Omaha is the natural marketing
point for the richest per capita
large territory.
King Corn is safe now till frost time.
It was a merciful rain, too, for it cooled
Chicago's riot spirit.
The coal dealers do not like the muny coal
yard. That's very evident.
Omaha is a long distance from salt water,
but it is some station on the navy's map, just
the same.
According to present market prices, that
was about an hundred-million-dollar rain for
Nebraska.
In these days of inflated prices, it will no
longer do to speak so disparagingly as to call
it a million-dollar rain.
This stocking-less fashion suggests com
batting the H. C. L. by going without some
other unnecessary garments.
To balance up these mid-summer fur sales,
we may expect a mid-winter clearance of straw
hats about six months hence.
But remember that boosting the tax rate
is only boosting another factor that makes for
high prices and high wages.
Lenine threatens to quit again. Some day
the Russians will take that fellow at his word,
and his retirement will be permanent.
Chairman Cummings assumes the custo
mary democratic attitude towards a serious sit
uation, but he may live to change his mind.
Chief Eberstein makes quite a concession
by admitting the possibility that the conduct
of one of his patrolmen needs looking into.
When the war began, everything on the
shelves was marked up to meet the situation.
Now that the war is over, why not reverse the
process?
Some American dramatist is about to have
imperishable fame thrust upon him. Jack
Dempsey is to be furnished an "act" suitable
for his abilities.
' The issue is raised, so we are told, "What
will Governor McKelvie do?" O pshaw 1 What
will President Wilson do? What will Mayor
Smith do? What will all of them together do?
That Egyptian princess who comes here
looking for a husband who is young and .tem
peramental ought not to have any trouble in
finding one. The woods are full of such in
America.
The chairman of the democratic national
committee tells the president that the people
are 10 to 1 in favor of the treaty and the league
covenant. But he does not support his asser
tion with proof.
Unhappy is the governor who has a spe
cial session of the legislature on his hands.
World-Herald.
Just about in the same fix as the president
who has a special session of congress on his
' hands.
A trade balance of more than four billions
of dollars on a total foreign trade exceeding
ten billiqns Is the stupendous record of Amer
ica's commerce for the year ending June .10.
It is the greatest in our history. Declining
prices may reduce this in the matter of dol
lars, but foresight and energy will not let it
drop much in the actual volume of commodities
sent abroad.
Food Prices Too High
Herman H. Halladay, state commissioner
of animal industry, says the farmers of Michi
gan are not cultivating their farms to full ca
pacity. He says the reason is because the farm
ers cannot get labor enough. Other experts in
the state agree with Mr. Halladay. There is an
economic maladjustment, they say, between
farm and factory production. By payment of
big wages the factory keeps labor from the
farm, and hence food prices become so high
priced that the big wages mean little.
. . This situation has existed to some extent
for years. Many people have pointed out that
the season when the farmer needs labor is -the
slack time in factory work, when inventory and
overhauling decrease the need for factory labor.
"If the factory labor could be got to the farms
when the farm needs them, and in quantities the
. farm needs, the farm-labor question would be
solved. State and nation have made attempts
to do this. Individuals, inspired by war pa
triotism, helped. But it should be a concerted,
state planned and controlled movement to make
it fully effective. The question is of such mo
ment that immediate and thorough examination
ending in constructive action should be made.
-But while experts insist that purely innocent
conomic causes are accountable for much of
the high cost of food, they insist that the public
pays far too high a price for its food, even
granting that farm production is short of what
it might be. Their argument that the govern
ment should have strict supervision over the
processes of distribution, so that the public
may know where the mulcting takes place, is
sound. In that way relief from present high
' prices would be gained. Detroit News
PROFITEERING.
Talk about profiteering is rife and unques
tionably in many cases with good foundation
of fact. No one has any sympathy for the will
ful and criminal profiteer and everyone would
like to see him get his just deserts.
But talk about instituting legislative inves
tigations and passing new laws to put a stop
to profiteering strikes us as just beating about
in the air. Our statute books here in Ne
braska are right now full of laws defining crim
inal conspiracies and prescribing penalties for
them. There are laws against cornering the
markets and price boosting and extortion and
cheating, which, if enforced, would put a stop
to the great mass of the complaints of profiteer
ing. We also have laws which make it the
duty of certain officials to enforce the criminal
statutes. We have an army of regularly con
stituted prosecuting officers, and if they are
inadequate to the task, we can have a special
grand jury in every county in the state. If a
grand jury cannot get at the facts how can
any other set of investigators expect to do any
better.
If there is a call to go after the profiteers,
let the work start without waiting for more
laws, and let it p'roceed without dust raising
or camouflage.
Superheated Partisanship Rebuked.
The Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore
performs a really timely service for its readers
in the south by reminding them that the oppo
sition to the president's plans does not flow
from mere partsanshp. Referrng to and com
menting upon a letter from Hon. John B. Knox
of Alabama, "one of the foremost lawyers of
the south and a man of high character," who is
against the Leagne of Nations plan, the Record
says:
When southern papers denounce all who
opposed the League of Nations as doing so
from partisan motives; when they refer to
these people, as the Atlanta Constitution did,
as "political buzzards," and as one of the
leading religious papers of the south" last
week spoke of senators who were opposing
the League of Nations as doing so from "the
rankest partisanship, utterly blind and fatu
ous," seeking only to embarrass the president
at whatever cost to the country or to the
world, they would have difficulty in classify
ing such men as Mr. Knox, whose democracy
and integrity can not be questioned, and
who opposed the League of Nations. It is
a lamentable fact that even some of the
religious papers, carried away by bitter par
tisanship themselves, are denouncing those
in congress who oppose the league as though
they were without any sense of honor or
integrity or moral responsibility to the na
tion and to the world. People who take this
position merely show that they have lost the
sense of Christian charity and fairness. They
are denouncing those whose honor and in
tegrity is certainly equal to theirs, and they
find in abuse of their opponents the only ar
gument they can advance for their position.
And here is a short sermon that may be ap
plied in Nebraska as well as in the south. The
efforts of the democrats to make a partisan
question out of this tremendous issue, and
their denunciation and villification of all who
do not agree with the views of the president
deserve the dignified rebuke that is thus administered.
Budget for the Federal Government.
A committee has been named in the house,
to report not later than March 1, on legislation
looking to the adoption of a budget system for
the federal government. This is one of the
most important of all reconstruction steps. Not
that it is new, for the point has been raised
again and again, always to be met by the house
clinging to its constitutional prerogative re
garding appropriations and the increasing
abuses that have grown up under it. When
the Sixty-fourth congress adjourned, the demo
crats made a pledge that in the Sixty-fifth all
appropriations would go through a single com
mittee, that there might be no duplications,
overlaps or similar wastes of money. This
promise, like a great many others made by the
democrats, was not carried out in letter or
spirit, with the result that a riot of extrava
gance prevailed. How extensive this was is
shown by the fact that the present house, in
the hasty revision of the appropriations passed
by the democrats for the current fiscal year,
was able to save a billion and a half, without in
any way hampering the administration of the
government. In 1910 it was estimated that
$300,000,000 a year could be saved by such a
system. If that was true then, it is reasonable
to almost double the estimate now. Whatever
saving may be accomplished by the plan will be
for the good of the people, and so the an
nouncement from Washington will be most
welcome to taxpayers.
Sunday Ice for Omaha.
The Sunday ice situation is beginning to
percolate through the minds of the city coun
cilmen, and they are apparently coming to
realize the hardship that is enforced on the
citizens by the existing ordinance. The fact
that on last Sunday a hospital, a hotel and
many private houses were without ice because
of the foolish arrangement that exists show
how much suffering is caused by stopping this
great service for one day a week. It should be
continuous, just as are the other activities of
city life on which the comfort and health of
the community depends. Common sense as
well as public decency demands it. Only slight
readjustment of working forces will be needed
to put each ice handling concern in the city
in position to make Sunday deliveries. Until
this is done, some part of Omaha's people will
suffer for want of ice, just as has been the case
since the ordinance was put on the book and
its enforcement ordered.
Blacks are not alone in abuse of liberty in
the north. It takes two to make a fight. A
little forbearance on both sides and a mutual
recognition of the rights of others will avoid
anything that might lead to a race war.
Whether a criminal can be sentenced on his
plea of guilty is about to be determined by the
Nebraska courts. It looks like a quibble, but
if the point is settled once it may serve to quiet
an uneasy legal mind.
A British peer hopes that country will never
have to build a navy against the United States.
Must have had a remembrance of John Paul
Jones, "Old Ironsides," and Oliver Hazard
Perry.
1 France is inclined to delay ratification of the
ppeace treaty until the United States senate
acts on the Anglo-Franco-American pact. The
Paris conference did not end the war, after alL
Financial Psychology
From the New York Times.
Baron Jacques de Neuflize is of the opinion
that credit is largely a matter of psychology.
He has come to America in behalf of the Bank
of France to aid in establishing credits, the ob
ject of which is to restore the value of the
franc so that trade with us may be resumed in
full volume, and his first appeal is for a fuller
mutual understanding.
Throughout the world, as our phrase goes,
money talks; but in each country it speaks a
different language. Our vacabulary is that of a
people accustomed to deal on a large scale with
definite material values. We have in abundance
what the world most wants, and it has been
our custom, very largely, to let the facts of the
situation conduct our propaganda. Our money
talks in monosyllables. When it is a question
of invading new territory the method has dis
advantages, as we have found to our cost in
in South America. Even in France there arc
difficulties. An American office suite furnished
in mahogany, with a multitude of telephones
and stenographers, does not convince the
French buyer. He smells out waste, and his
cautious, analytical mind tells him that in all
probability he and his customers would have to
pay for it. So widespread is this economic in
stinct that, if a French salesman who is travel
ing second class sees a customer traveling
third class, he dodges to the cheaper compart
men for fear the customer will conclude that
there is somewhere an illegitimate profit and
demand lower prices. In America a salesman
thinks that he owes it to his own credit, and to
the credit of the house that employs him, to
breathe an air of prosperity. It pays to adver
tise. In France what pays is reasoned sales
manship, with a New Year's gift to the cus
tomer's wife and always a word for the chil
dren. Money talks clearly, reasonably, with a
human touch. Baron de Neuflize does not say
this in set terms; he suggests it merely, and he
does so with unfailing humor and address. But
in speaking of the French attitude with regard
to the proposed sale of bonds he was admirably
explicit.
Cautious as the French are, they feel that
their situation is basically sound. Of the 5,000,
000.000 to 6,000,000,000 francs of trade obliga
tions outstanding at the time of the moratorium
of 1914, only a little over 6 per cent are still
unpaid, and at least half of that sum is made
up of debts left by men killed in the war. Half
ruined factories are operating under tar-paper
roofs and with paper partitions within yet
turning out wares of the accustomed standard.
Labor troubles have on the whole been suc
cessfully handled. French confidence is most
clearly evident in the fact that the investment
market is good; the loan of 1,500,000 francs re
cently issued by the city of Paris is quoted at
3 per cent premium. Admittedly, the problem
of financing the French government by con
verting short-term securities into long-term
bonds is a big one; but France understands its
people and is confident of solving it. The one
vitally serious problem is of making it possible
to get goods from abroad the problem of re
establishing the purchasing power of the franc.
The basic values are there in material resources
and the energy, intelligence and thrift of the
French people.
Baron de Neuflize offers this little address
to hesitant financial psychology: "In 1914 you
pitied us from the depths of your hearts, but
you said: 'Poor France, it will never be able
to stand against Germany!' We did stand
against Germany; with your good help and
that of our neighbors we have driven the Ger
mans back. Now you say again: 'Poor France,
it will never be able to work again and pay its
debts!' But we are able to work are work
ing. Already your sympathy is with us; in
the end you will realize that to help us is good
business."
Deport the Alien Enemies
It is good news that congress is preparing
to take up, and apparently will speedily pass,
a bill providing for the deportation of more
than 500 dangerous alien enemies now confined
in the internment camps in this country. The
harmless aliens sailors from the German ships,
refugees from the far east, and so on have
long since been sent back to Germany, and
there may be those who will think it is not
wholly consistent to do the same with men
whose activities before and during our declara
tion of war were directly harmful to the in
terests of the United States. But there is a
difference.
The aliens already returned to Germany
were for the most part persons who wanted
to go back; the aliens to be deported under the
proposed law are Germans who lived here,
often for many years, and who repaid the op
portunities offered by America with plots and
propaganda designed to break the unity of the
American people and make our war efforts use
less. Some Germans of this class, no longer re
garded as dangerous, have already been re-'
leased and are going about among their old
associates. It was said a few months ago that
something more than a thousand of the Ger
mans interned here were regarded as danger
ous; if only half that number are included in
the bill now before congress, it is evident that
our authorities have not erred on the side of
strictness. These persons ought to be sent back
to Germany, and never allowed to land here
again. They came among us and were received
as friends, and they behaved as enemies. New
York Times.
Courtesy in Dealing
If you are in a store selling goods, try to
please every customer, who comes along. Do it
for your own sake if not for the customer's.
Being kind, courteous, upright makes one better
in character and demeanor than if he were ir
ritable, suspicious and stubborn. The only hap
piness lies in the finer traits of one's nature.
We almost hate to say there is business in it,
too. One likes to patronize another who has
some soul in his life. If he were the head of
a big store we would see that the clerks were
pleasant and polite or they would go. Insist
ing upon this requirement would be a favor
to the employe. And the head of the house
should set the example. He should be as
courteous and pleasant as he expects his clerks
to be. He should not go about with a grouchy
face, looking as if he thought his employes
were poor white trash, doing the worst they
could. A great store is an educational estab
lishment, teaching all concerned, employes, cus
tomer and proprietor, that the surest way to be
noole is in doing noble things. Ohio State
Journal.
The Day We Celebrate.
Dr. Charles H. Gietzen, dentist, born 1876.
Sir William Watson, present-day English
poet, born in Yorkshire 61 years ago.
Samuel V. Stewart, governor of Montana,
born in Monroe county, Ohio, 47 years ago.
Charles Francis Adams, lawyer, great-great-grandson
of President John Adams, born at
Quincy, Mass., 53 years ago.
Dr. Winthrop J. Osterhout, professor of
botany in Harvard university, born in Brook
lyn, N. Y., 48 years ago.
Rt. Rev. Thomas Grace, Catholic bishop of
Sacramento, born in Wexford, Ireland, 78 years
ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Chief of free postal delivery at Washington
has announced the issuance of an order for five
additional carriers in Omaha.
The Methodist church was filled at the
crazy social, which was greatly enjoyed by all.
Mrs. Clarence H. Sobotker gave a delight
ful picnic at Hanscom park.
The postmaster's report for last month
shows the sale of stamps and envelopes to the
value of $18,384.34,
Friend of the Soldier
Replies will be given in this
column to questions relating
to the soldier and his prob
lems, in and out of the army.
Names will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Answer.
Eighty-Eight's War Record.
G. D. H. Your young friend may
be telling the exact truth, and may
be exercising the soldier's privilege
of exaggeration. However, the offi
cial records show that the 88th,
which was about the very last di
vision to be called into the Ar-gronne-Meuse
battle, was one day in
the quiet sector, and 17 days in the
active zone, a total of 18 days on
the battle front. Its battle losses
are recorded as 27 killed and 63
wounded. The division also is cred
ited with having taken three Ger
man prisoners. It is not the fault
of the division that the armistice
was signed just as it was getting
into real action. The men who com
posed it were of the same quality
a sthose who bore the brunt of the
fighting, their share would have
come, a little later had the war con
tinued, and they are therefore en
titled to all credit for their part in
the war. Many men who did not
get to France at all, and many oth
ers who did not see the front were
as brave and as eager a sthose who
went over the top.
Many Questions Answered.
P. V. R. The 31st infantry will
be held indefinitely in Siberia. It
is on duty there, guarding the rail
road and looking after American
interests, and no orders have been
issued for its removal.
W. R. M. The Second division
has been ordered home and is now.
The first units have just reached
New York and the others are at
sea on the way over.
G. A. D. The Fourth division
has not yet sailed, nor has a date
been announced for its departure.
It was ordered to prepare for return
home last month, and will no doubt
soon be on its way across the At
lantic. Watch The Bee for an
nouncement of the date.
Father and Mother The latest
announcement with reference to the
Third division is that it is to be
withdrawn from the German area
it has been occupying, and will com
mence entraining for Brest about
August 5.
Private You should be prompt
in your remittance of insurance
premium to the Bureau of War
Risk. The department has been
quite lenient in the matter of ac
cepting belated remittances, but is
not . likely to continue the policy in
definitely. Letters containing re
mittances postmarked on the last
day of the month are accepted as
having been paid within that month.
It will be a serious mistake for you
to forfeit this insurance, as you will
never be able to get as good insur
ance at so low a rate again.
Ex-Service The service button
may be obtained at the Army build
ing, Fifteen and Dodpje streets.
Show your discharge paper and the
button will be given you without
charge.
Marine It is understood that the
men who enlisted in the marine
corps for the four-year term while
the war was on may change the
terms of their enlistment to "mer
gency only.',' Applications for such
change must be made before Sep
tember 1, 1919.
Jesse The First corps artillery
park still is with the Third army and
has not been assigned to early con
voy heme.
Walter A soldier who reported to
camp is entitled to the $60 bonus.
Write to the zone finance officer.
Lemon building, Washington, D. C,
sending him a copy of your dis
charge papers.
Soldier Premiums on insurance
may bo paid by check, cash, draft or
money order.
MUCH IN LITTLLE.
An "oyster produces 400.000 eggs
annually, but of these onh' 400 or
less reach maturity.
To enable women to carry reserve
supplies of perfumery a hollow
finger ring has been invented.
Japanese harbor improvements in
Kobe and Moji are being under
taken to the amount of $13,000,000.
An English scientist has had much
success with an electrical treatment
to increase the germination of sev
eral kinds oi seeds.
Two gasoline-driven engines have
been invented to fill trenches with
out the use of shovelers, wagons or
overhead cableways.
Australian manufacturers are
makinrr pressed steel water pipe 28
feet long by 30 inches internal diam
eter at a plant in Bombay.
Crossing the Berkshire breed of
hogs with the native pigs in the
Philippines has made a profitable
hog out of the Island runt, and
would no doubt also improve the
Chinese hog. In Hongkong the
Midyorkshire hog is proving a suc
cess, both crossed with native hogs
and when kept pure.
THE FLAG WILL BE TRUE TO
HIM.
He may have naught but his army clothes,
His bundle, his scars and his vim;
But he has been true to his country's flag,
And the flap will be true to him.
Again he will .loin the homeland folks
And the soldier will be no more;
And some will not know he'd been called
to face
Mad hell with ita thundering roar.
He may come back to a home and lova
And a "job" he may call his own;
But sometimes a soldier has no kin
And he walks through the crowd alone.
But the hero la sure of the Stars and
Stripes
Whose proud colors will not grow dim;
For he has been true to the grand old
flag
And the flag will be true to him.
Anna Pauline Belnhold.
Copyright, 1819.
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ADVENTURE
DAILY DOT PUZZLE
By DADDY.
"THE CinCUS BIUD."
(Judge Owl Is anxious to Join a circus.
Peggy and Billy plant him In a hothouse
and he grows quickly until he becomes the
biggest bird In the world.)
Judge Owl's Fun.
TTOO! Hoo! Get me out of here
XJ. before I grow through the
roof," hooted Judge Owl from the
hothouss.
Billy and Peggy were scared when
they saw how big he had become.
They had no 'idea that he would
grow so fast. And he was still
growing. His head rose against the
glass roof, and the roof began to
creak and crack. If Judge Owl
swelled up any more It was bound
to go smash.
"Stop him growing, Billy, or he
will break all Gardner Phil's glass!"
shrieked Peggy. But Billy didn't
know how to stop Judge Owl unless
he put a weight on his head, and it
would have to be a ton weight to do
any good.
In the hothouse was a chain and
windlass and Billy saw that by wind
ing up the chain he could raise the
glass roof. Perhaps if he could let
Judge Owl out that might stop his
growing. Acting on this idea, Billy
began to work at the windlass and
in a jiffy he lifted the sash off Judge
Owl's head.
"Now fly out," cried Peggy to the
Judge.
"Hoo! Hoo: How can I fly while
my feet are still planted?" screeched
the Judge, flapping and struggling
until the hothouse was a smother of
feathers.
Billy seized a shovel and Peggy
seized a spade. Div ing under the mass
of feathers they began to dig. It was
a big job because Judge Owl's claws
had grown as fast as his body,
spreading out in the ground like the
roots of a tree.
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Hoo! Hoo! Get Me Out of Here Be
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Out among the cat-tails see
A great from Kankakee.
Draw from one to two and ao on to the
"Hurry! Hurry! I'm still growing
and will soon be as big as a house,"
hooted the Judge. Peggy and Billy
dug as fast as they could and soon
had the dirt loosened around one
foot. Judge Owl gave a big heave
and up came the foot out of the
ground. He gave another heave,
and up came the other foot.
"Hoo! Hoo! I'm free!" hooted the
Judge, rising heavily into the air.
It happened that Blue Jay and
Reddy Woodpecker were flying past,
just as Judge Owl, looking like a
huge feather balloon, sailed up from
the hothouse. They gave one look,
and then with wild shrieks went
scooting for Birdland.
"A bird monster! A bird monster!
Everybody fly for your lives!" they
shrilled.
And everybody did fly. General
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Reservations Will Not Help.
New York City, July 29. To the
Editor of The Bee: No reservation
by the United States senate either of
the Monroe doctrine or of the United
States reservved right to withdraw
from the league of nations would be
effective unless at the time such
reservation were attempted to be
exercised the council of the league
then approved of its exercise.
Such reservation might be as
worthless and ineffectual as the like
reservation of the alleged right of
Virginia, New York and Rhode Is
land to secede from the federal un
ion contained in the respective rati
fications of the United States con
stitution by those states, was held
to be during the civil war. By the
sword of war and labor and later
by the decision of the federal su
preme court, it was decided that
notwithstanding express reservations
in their ratifications of the constitu
tion of the right of those states to
secede, the federal union was per
petual and indissoluble. Texas vs.
White 7 Wallace, 700, 722, 725-6.
Virginia's ratification of tho fed
eral constitution does "declare and
make known that the powers grant
ed under the constitution being de
rived from the people of the United
States may be resumed by them
whensoever the same shall be per
verted to their injury or oppres
sion. 2 Documentary History of
the Constitution of the United
States, p. 145.
New York's ratification of the fed-1
eral constitution declares "That the
powers of government may be re
assumed by the people, whensoever
it shall become necessary to their
happiness." 2 Documentary His
tory, pp. 190, 191.
Rhode Island's ratification de
clares "That the powers of govern
ment may be re-assumed by the
people, whensoever it shall become
necessary to their happiness." ?
Documentaary History, p. 311.
In Fourteen Diamond Rings vs.
U. S. 83, U. S. 176, 179-180, a reser
vation by a majority of ach house
of congress to the treaty of peace
with Spain was held to be "abso
lutely without legal significance."
(183 U. S. 180.)
The council of the league of na
tions is an autocracy like the holy
alliance, without any supreme court
or .any other council or legislative
body to hold it In check. It Is the
sole judge of its own powers. It is
a union of the executive, legislative
and judiciary merged into one body.
If its decision, however erroneous,
is disregarded, an international boy
cott, embargo or taboo will be fol
lowed by an international war, in
which it is the duty of every mem
ber state to support the Interna
tional war to the utmost of its
strength. There is no more reason
to believe that in an emergency the
Monroe doctrine would be respected
because reserved or the reserved
right to secede peaceably allowed,
than was the like reserved right in
the case of Virginia (likewise of
New York and Rhode Island) in
1861. HENRY A. FOSTER.
Swallow, sweeping down from th
sky. caught on swift glance of thj
' judge and pelted away for Birdland
: at record SDeed. Bob-o-Unk forgot
his wife In his hurry and got a fln
scolding when she caught up with
him. Mr. Oriole became so much
excited that he dived into a wasps
nest, mistaking it for his own home,
and had to do some mighty fast fly
ing while he tried to explain the
matter to the angry wasps.
"Hoo! Hoo! Too! Too! I'm th
bltreest bird in the world. Every-
I body is afraid of me," whistled
Judge Owl gleefully as he saw th
I other birds flee. "Hoo! Hoo! Scoot!
j Scoot!" he screened, chasing after
them. And the birds scooted De
fore. In less time than it takes to
tell they had raced out of eight,
some hiding in houses and sheds,
some rising among the clouds, and
some making for their faraway
nests.
"Hoo! Hoo! It's fun being the
biggest bird in the world," exulted v
Judge Owl. Then he swooped
down toward Peggy and Billy, land
before they knew what he was up
to he had seized them, one in each
claw, and was carrying them swift
ly away.
"Here, here, drop us!" yelled
Billy.
"No, no, we'll be smashed!"
shrieked Peggy, looking with alarm
at the height they had reached from
the ground.
"Hoo Hoo! Peggy and Billy are
scared. Hoo! Hoo! What fun!"
screeched Judge Owl.
"Where are you going?" demand
ed Billy.
"Why, to the circus, of course.
I'm the biggest freak in the world."
Soaring over trees and houses,
Judge Owl headed for the circus
tents at the edge of town.
(Tomorrow will be told how Judge Owl
Joins the circus.)
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